1.   It seems so cruel that I did not know by instinct when the blow fell on two hearts so close to mine!

2.   Negotiations with the unions are just beginning as to how the blow will fall.

3.   But immediately on his return home, basking in the sense that he was being treated as an equal partner, the blows fell.

4.   Initially, the hardest blows fell on Southern and Midwestern states where manufacturers supply a substantial portion of the tax revenues.

5.   Sixty percent of the jobs are held by minorities, so the blow would fall heaviest on the black, Asian and Hispanic members of this community.

6.   Another blow fell when Capt. Charles McVay III, a third-generation Navy man, was court-martialed for failing to sail an evasive zigzag course.

7.   The blow falls most heavily on California and Texas, where two Air Force maintenance depots that Clinton originally wanted spared are to be closed down.

8.   The first blow fell in November last year.

9.   Then the blow for Gossett falls.

10.   Then the fatal blow fell on Scotland three minutes later.